A theology of theosis offers a deep, holistic understanding of salvation: not merely being forgiven, but being restored, transformed, and brought into fuller participation in the life of God. It begins with the idea of being directed back to wholeness, suggesting that salvation is not only about escaping guilt or punishment but also about healing what has been fractured in human life. In this view, salvation is relational and participatory. It is not simply a legal status or a future destination; it is a living union with God that begins now and reshapes the whole person.

So what does this have to do with the salvation issue that never seemed answerable or even agreeable to the Christian world? How did I arrive at an understanding of salvation, the central thesis of God’s prophets and eventually the Messiah’s arrival and death on Calvary? 

“I have come to bring a message of good news to the poor; He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captive and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty (set free) those who are oppressed and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Even questions about who we are, what is our true self about? And why didn’t relationships work? Why were our parents so angry and controlling or sad and distant from their children? Many of us have been asking these questions since we can remember and haven’t gotten any answers.